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I don't think of power in terms of conquering people. I don't think of it as something to be imposed. That kind of power seldom lasts. But you should realize that power is a constant in the world. You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you. To me, ultimate power is the ability to produce the results you desire most and create value for others in the process. Power is the ability to change your life, to shape your perceptions, to make things work for you and not against you. Real power is shared, not imposed. It's the ability to define human needs and to fulfill themboth your needs and the needs of the people you care about. It's the ability to direct your own personal kingdomyour own thought processes, your own behaviorso you produce the precise results you desire. Anthony (Tony) Robbins		Thursday Apr 03, 2025
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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. Gerald Brenan, CBE

Quote Author: Gerald Brenan, CBE

	Gerald Brenan, CBE
	Gerald Brenan, CBE (1894 - 1987) was a British writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village . He was awarded a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in Spain. Read More

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The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying ourselves.